{"id":26478,"date":"2020-02-07T12:04:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T01:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26478"},"modified":"2020-02-07T12:04:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T01:04:32","slug":"cigarette-butts-are-polluting-the-ocean-more-than-plastic-straws-so-why-not-ban-these","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26478","title":{"rendered":"Cigarette butts are polluting the ocean more than plastic straws \u2014 so why not ban these?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"516\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Butts_On_Beach.jpg\" alt=\"Butts On Beach\" class=\"wp-image-26479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Butts_On_Beach.jpg 516w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Butts_On_Beach-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn annual ocean cleanups in 2016, cigarette butts remained the top collected item of litter in California, in the United States, and internationally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-link is-provider-global-news\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ma4V6GSAAA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/4418956\/cigarette-butts-ocean-pollution-ban\/\">Cigarette butts are polluting the ocean more than plastic straws \u2014 so why not ban these?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Cigarette butts are polluting the ocean more than plastic straws \u2014 so why not ban these?&#8221; &#8212; Global News\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/4418956\/cigarette-butts-ocean-pollution-ban\/embed\/#?secret=zPXNy11QCk#?secret=ma4V6GSAAA\" data-secret=\"ma4V6GSAAA\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn annual ocean cleanups in 2016, cigarette butts remained the top collected item of litter in California, in the United States, and internationally.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26481,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26478\/revisions\/26481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}